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Thursday, November 20, 1930 McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMWK i ,araii Page Number Two McCORMICK MESSENGER Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 EDMOND J. McCEACKEN, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C., as mail matter of the second class. DISPLAY ADVERTISING— 25 cents per inch for each inser tion; nothing less than 4 inches accepted for double column dis play, nor less than 2 inches for single column display. Positions given at ONE-THIRD extra charge. BUSINESS READING NOTICES: 6 per cent per line for each inser tion, average of 6 words to line. WANT AD VS., 6 cents per line for each insertion, average of 6 words to line. TRIBUTES OF RESPECT, 6 cents per line, 6 words to line. All advs, set in body type, 6 cents per single column line; extra charges for big type on all single column advs., except head and signature. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Strictly Cash In Advance One Year $1.00 Six" Months r .75 Three Months i. .50 KEEPING THE FAITH men of unquestioned integrity of character and purpose who are temporarily unable to meet their financial obligations promptly on the dot. Extensions of time and renewals to them will be most helpful and stimulate them to pay as promptly as they may soon be able. “With the volume of money that is itself unemployed in gainful oc cupation the banks and merchants and credit agencies should be able easily to make accommodation terms with most of their debtors, and do it with safety.” There may be individuals dispos ed to take advantage of present conditions to gather in property or securities for less than their value because of the inability of their owners to meet their obligations but generally banking institutions have long since passed to a higher standard of ethics. Banks are helpful and constructive in such periods to the limit of their re sources, and therein is reflected the great stride business has taken in modern days. tXt HOW TO CARRY OUT THE PROGRAM not be allowed to exist as a county, tending by way of Hartsville to Indeed, it should be as easy to ab- Route No. 34 and thence on Route olish an old county as to create a No. 34 to Bishopville, to be let to new one. Meantime, the attempts! paving contract at November (From The News and Courier.) “How and where could the state appropriations be reduced $2,500,- 000, as proposed by The News and Courier yesterday? The News and Courier does not pretend to be a careful student of the state budget, therefore answers to the question which it now sub mits are tentative and subject to revision by itself. It is clear that the state has traveled too fast—and too far—in developing the educational system. It is far from certain that the high school system is not established on a faulty principle. The state per forms its duty when it gives the child opportunity to be fully liter ate—an opportunity complete in the grammar school. It is extremely doubtful that the economic condition of the state justifies any system of public transportation for the child in school, however desirable it may be to a commonwealth that has ample wealth to provide it. The “teacher load” it is admitt ed can be increased so that an an nual saving of $250,000 would be effected. Reduce the state expenditures for common school education by at least $1,250,000 to $1,500,000. Increase the tuition charges in the colleges. / Eliminate a large proportion of the college scholarships. Abolish the system of admitting students to colleges on high school certificates. Many of the “accred ited high schools” fail to prepare students for the freshman class, and the colleges are in that way crowded with young men and wo men whose place is in the shop or the home. Require all applicants for admission to the colleges to pass examination tests. Let the General Assembly try to disabuse itself of the' nonsensical notion that the number of students en rolled bears relation to the useful ness of the college’s work. Thus the way would be opened to raise standards of scholarship, to infuse into a diploma an element of truthful testimony that its holder is an educated man or woman, yrhile shrinkage of enrollment would not imply proportionate re duction of a college’s cost of main tenance, it would make possible a measure of saving, with perhaps serious deterioration in the qual ity of football teams. Abolish five or six departments of the state. Scrutinize each and all of them. If the banking de partment has not made the state banks decidedly safer than they otherwise would have been, why retain it? State supervision of great chains of banks is obviously of no worth. Reduce the railroad commission to three members. Why should this little state in which 34,000 farms, 18 per cent of the whole number, have been ab andoned in ten years, continue to maintain an expensive agricultur al college, a department of agri culture and a farm warehousing system—three separate agricultur al agencies? In a time of unemployment why should the minimum wage be fix ed by law for 8,500 teachers? “This as a time when a leaven of Abolish the governor’s police sympathy and humanity can be force. If there be a county in South rationally and safely mixed with Carolina incapable of enforcing the otherwise rigid rules of busi- -he laws within its borders, if it ness. There are in every commun- cannot choose efficient sheriffs, Some two thousand years ago, it is recounted, a Roman playwright said, “He's not to be commended who trusts another any further than he sees.” That may have been good advise in those days—we can’t say wheth er it was or was not—but if it were the rule of the business and social life of this country today, we would all be headed for the bow wows. Imagine what would be the re sult if, when someone handed you a check in payment for something that you demanded to see his bank account, what would it mean if you did not trust him? You would insist that the person giving you the check should take you to the bank. But would you trust the banker. Not if you were guided by the teachings of two thousand years ago. You would probably ask the banker to show you the money this person had in bank. The banker likely would ex hibit some gold or silver certifi cates. But what do they mean? They are valueless unless they are back ed up by the required amount of gold and silver in the United States treasury. It would be out of rea son to ask the banker to take you to Washington to see the metal coins that stood back of the paper money. So you would be in a blind alley, as it were, up against a brick wall. As a matter of fact none of us can be guided by this sort of teaching. We must have faith in our asso ciates^ pur friends, our neighbors, cur townspeople, our merchants and our public officials. Our whole manner of living is based on faith. If it were not for confidence that men repose in one another, our so cial and business structure would be on a flimsy foundation. So, when your faith in someone is shaken, just recall how much de pends upon the faith and confid ence of people in one another. Where it is violated once, it is kept thousands of times. Without it we would all be lost. txt SENATOR SMITH'S SUGGESTION / * # (The Spartanburg Herald.) to police the state from the gover nor's office are feeble and ridicul ous, doing more harm than good. They are dangerous, moreover, to democratic government, as they may support the nucleus of a po litical machine out of public funds. The worthlessness of the gover nor’s police in prohibition enforce ment is demonstrated by the lux uriant growth of the bootlegging and moonshining business in the city and counties closest to the governor’s office. To employ the service or buy the goods that a dollar would buy in 1913, only $1.33 is required now. Cotton sells at 11 cents a pound. Excepting those whose salaries or wages are protected by law, or oth er artificial means, a man must do nearly twice as much work or sell twice as many goods now to earn the dollar returns of 1920. Conse quently, the interest paid by the state on borrowed money or in salaries represents nearly twice as much expenditure of time and la bor as in January, 1920. The taxes are not only greatly increased in dollars but the burden is even more increased by the swelling in the dollar value. Hence the man paid $7,500 in 1930 by comparison with $3,500 ten years ago is in fact re ceiving the equivalnet of $10,000 -or more now. Therefore, salaries gen erally, should be ruthlessly cut. The operation would’ entail suffer ing and anguish, in some cases the officeholders, unable to adjust themselves and their families to realities, would be ruined. Why should the state be threatened with insolvency on their account? The last ten years the majority of the people have been living on their capital. They have sold pat ches of timber to saw mills to buy gasoline and send the boy and girl to college. When $20,000,000 in shares, sur plus and deposits of banks are lost it is as though houses of that value had been burned without insur ance. Every merchant, every factory, every farmer, has had to write down inventories. Generally they have reduced expenses proportion ately, or they have been forced out of business. The state, the county, the city, the town, govern ments are exceptional concerns that neglect to do this necessary thing. They are still trying to ride high and wide on a horse whose ribs stick out and knees wobble. XXX S. C. WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW > The following record of indus trial activity lists items showing Investment of capital, employ ment of labor and business activ ities and opportunities. Informa tion from which the paragraphs are prepared Is from local papers, usually of towns mentioned, and may be considered generally cor rect. meeting. Work progressing on Florence- Darlington Tuberculosis Sanator ium. Hartsville — Franchise granted to Johnson Church & Co., repre senting National Gas and Utilities Corporation, to erect and operate plant for supply of gas to residents of this city. Georgetown — 1,000 barrels of shrimp shipped during recent week to New York market. Spartanburg — Twenty-third an nual Spartanburg County Fair held recently. Charleston — New Tabernacle Fourth Church now opened. Belton — New circulator heaters installed at Second Baptist church. Walterboro — Railway Express Agency moves office to building on Hampton Street, formerly occupi ed by Safety Service Station. Belton — River Street to be im proved. Conway — Portion of sewer line lying under Fourth Avenue to be relayed to make way for paving re maining of Fourth Avenue, re cently taken over by State High way Department as part of Route No. 40. Pageland — J. F. Edgeworth pur chased Sugar Bowl Cafe from H. D. Rushing. Bennetsville — Large gathering held here to discuss construction work in Marlboro County and steps to secure full and early paving of its important roadways. Lexington — New church build ing constructed for St. Davids. Pageland — Dr. J. B. Niece, of Chesterfield, purchased stock of drugs of Odom Drug Co. and new owner to open drug store at once. IXt To The Cheerful Giver Whom God Loveth The Atlanta Constitution thinks the suggestion Senator Smith of South Carolina made that banks and other agencies of credit should not, in other than exceptional cases press the collection of well secured debts during the pending period of depression and unemployment, de serves to be passed around the business world in a much wider circle than South Carolina. The Constitution says: “In past history such situations were met by ‘stay laws,’ but they are now practically obsolete and the only refuge for a debtor about to be distrained and denuded, al though of known honesty, is the bankrupt court. But such men are strongly averse to being driven to that extreme source of delay or re lief. Camden — Two carloads white- face Hereford cows purchased for Mulberry plantation. Columbia — Bids opened on about $3,000,000 worth of road and bridge work by State Highway De partment. Camden — Messrs. Jas. A. Albert and Paul D. Lewis opened pho tograph gallery over Fashion Shop.. Sumter — School of dancing op ened by Miss Virginia Moise and Miss Catherine Carroll. Conway — State Highway Com mission to let contract immediate ly for paving Route No. 40 from this, place to North Carolina line. Greer — Greer Floral Company opened on Victoria Street, next to B. M. Lanford. Inman—S. W. Harris moved corn mill to quarters back of D. B. Can- aday’s store. Carload of Allendale County hogs shipped to Richmond market by V. M. Johnston, County Farm Agent. Ridgeland — Santee Heading Corporation, manufacturers of (And Those Not so Cheerful.) Charleston, S. C. Thanksgiving Time, 1930. Dear Friends: My harp, at present, has but one string; it is about to twang, and, monotonous or not, until the goal is attained T shall continue to twang, and that right lustily. And what is the goal? It is to complete that good brick building at St. Margaret’s Place, The Florence Crittenton Home and Trainng School established thirty- one years ago for the shelter and care of young unmarried mothers and their little babies; to train the former in right thinking and right living, and to give the tiny innocents a right start in life. Can you imagine anyone being callous to that appeal? Yet they must be for help comes in so slowly; there seems to be an all encircling gloom around wallets and check books. Oh, I know, hard times. And if not that, something else. For the South Carolina Blues are going strong. We are so anxious to do our part —won’t you help us to do it by do ing yours? Our building is so near completion, all the plastering is done, piping for water, and nn~* * soon to begin piping for heat, the last to cost $1,026, which amour/ we have on hand. Through the generosity of an unknown friend of New York who sent us this summer last a blessed check for $2,000, we have been able to make consider able progress. Why doesn’t somebody in South Carolina do something like that— still 200 $10’s will be as much, or 400 $5’s, or 1,000 $2’. Any amount is welcome and will do its part. The exterior is practically fin ished. The interior has reached the stage for mill-work, doors, frames, trim base, picture mould ings, costing $4600.00. For this amount we are now asking. Take this to heart—and help, friends, help! The Cheerful Beggar, CLAUDIA G. THARIN, Pres, and Treas. F. C. T. S. Office, 368 President St. Charleston, S. C. X Generally the crowds on the hampers bottoms, will rebuild re- street corners are not ar S uin S P oli - cently burned plant. tics. They are just trying to get Old rice mill, located on Coastal across street. Highway between Ridgeland and " Savannah, remodeled by Sid Tay- bootleg liquor killed only 700 lor and now being operated as people in New York last year, it s Tavern ” Bioing to be a slow process to get Belton — Interior of City Hall rid of all the bootlegger’s patrons. THE SPIRIT OF The year we have passed through since last Thanksgiving Day has put us all on trial, but has not found us wanting. A greater love of home and friends has develop ed, our hearts have gone out to one another and our way has been made easier so let us indeed be thankful for our privileges and fellowships. WE THANK YOU For the trust that you have plac ed in us. The finest compliment you can pay us is to rely on our ability and judgment. At this time we pledge ourself to continue to serve you, as before, to the full extent of our ability in every way. THE PEOPLES BANK McCormick, S. C. MAKE THE DINNER COMPLETE Your Thanksgiving feast won’t be complete unless you have some good smokes to top it off. Our good cigars, cigarettes or pipe tobacco will furnish enjoyment for everyone. We have a most complete variety for your choosing. Perhaps there is a friend or a member of the family ab sent whom you would like to remind that you are think ing of them on Thanksgiving? We have many appropri-. ate cards for the occasion which will carry your thoughts in a pleasing manner Come in and select the things that you need so that you can concentrate your efforts on the big dinner when the time arrives. STROMS’ DRUG STORE McCormick, S. C. & HE DELIVER Oil HEATS WHAT A PLEASURE TO VISIT OUR MEAT MARKET IN GOOD WEATHER AND MAKE YOUR OWN SELECTIONS OF THE BEST BEEF, PORK, SAUSAGE, CURED MEATS, ETC. YOU FEEL THAT YOU HAVE GOTTEN JUST WHAT YOU WANTED, AND NO DOUBT YOU HAVE. THAT'S ALL RIGHT, AND WE ARE GLAD TO HAVE YOU CHOP IN PERSON AJ OUR MARKET ANY TIME IT SUITS YOU. CUT, WE WANT TO IMPRESS UPON YOUR MIND THAT YOU GET THE SAME HIGH QUALITY MEATS WHEN YOU 'PHONE US AND WE'LL DELIVER RIGHT TO YOUR DU OR IN ANY KIND OF WEATHER. THAT'S WORTH SOMETHING. TO YOU, BUT YET WE MAKE NO EXTRA CHARGE FOR THIS SERVICE AND ARE GLAD TO SERVE YOU. OUR 'PHONE NUMBER IS 19. WE ALSO HAVE OYSTPYS EVERY DAY AND GOOD HASH EVERY SATURDAY. T. HOWARD SMITH'S MEAT MARKET McCORMICK, S. C. improved. Section of Routes No. 601 and -ixt- Women who know how to raise No. 30 beginning at Marlboro Coun- children never have any time to 4ty, without doubt, men and yto- deputies, rural policemen, it should ^ty line near Society Hill and ex- / give lectures on the subject. Experience Service Facilities Those are the important things in measuring the worth of a funeral director, and should be borne in mind when you have occasion to choose one DISTANCE IS NO HINDRANCE TO OUR SERVICE and there is no additional charge for service out of town J. S. STROM! Main Street McCormick, S. C.